On 10/29/2010 05:41 AM, Dennis Murphy wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Make grade an ordered factor:
> grade <- factor(grade, levels = c('G', 'VG', 'MVG'))
> as.numeric(as.character(grade)) will convert to numeric scores 1, 2 and 3,
> respectively, corresponding to the numerical codes of the ordered levels.
Not quite:
> g <- c('G', 'VG', 'MVG')
> grade <- factor(g, levels = c('G', 'VG', 'MVG'))
> as.numeric(as.character(grade))
[1] NA NA NA
However:
> as.numeric(grade)
[1] 1 2 3
(also, that's not an ordered factor, but it doesn't matter, the levels
have an order anyway)
>
> HTH,
> Dennis
>
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Par Leijonhufvud
> <p...@hunter-gatherer.org>wrote:
>
>> I'm working on a quick tutorial for my students, and was planning on
>> using Mann-Whitney U as one of the tests.
>>
>> I have the following (fake) data
>>
>> grade <- c("MVG", "VG", "VG", "G", "MVG", "G", "VG", "G", "VG")
>> sex <- c( "male", "male", "female", "male", "female", "male", "female",
>> "male", "male")
>> gradesbysex <- data.frame(grade, sex)
>>
>> The grades is in the Swedish system, where the order is G < VG < MVG
>>
>> The idea is that they will investigate if they can show a grade
>> difference by sex (i.e. that the teacher gives better grades to boys or
>> girls).
>>
>> Since the wilcox.test needs the order of the grades it wants numeric
>> vector for the data. Is there a good and simple (i.e. student
>> compatible) way to handle this? I could tell them to enter data as
>> numbers instead, but an elegant way to do this inside R would be
>> preferable.
>>
>>
>> On the same theme, is there a way to tell barplot that, when making
>> stacked barplots, to stack the data in a particular order (default
>> appears to be alphabetical)?
Presumably, same thing: Ensure that the stacking factor is a factor with
the levels in the correct order. However, you (Par) didn't tell how the
barplot was generated. The argument to the default method is a matrix
and the row/col ordering determines the plot. If, in turn, it was
created by tabulating two factors, then factor level ordering (by
default alphabetic) applies to the table.
--
Peter Dalgaard
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
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Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com
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